Forthcoming: Journal of Economic Growth Growth Is Good for the Poor (2007)
Abstract: Average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately with average incomes. This is a consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the...
Abstract: Several recent papers have attempted to identify the partial effects of trade integration and institutional quality on long-run growth, using the geographical determinants of trade and the...
Abstract: Countries with better institutions and countries that trade more grow faster. Countries with better institutions also tend to trade more. These three stylized facts have been documented...
Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty since 1980 (2007)
David Dollar, Paul Collier, Bill Easterly, Chang-tai Hsieh, Aart Kraay, Nick Stern, ...
Views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect official views of the
Trade, Growth, and Poverty (2007)
Abstract: A key issue today is the effect of globalization on inequality and poverty. We first identify a
Sergio L. Schmukler, Paul Collier, Uri Dadush, David Dollar, Patrick Honohan
This chapter discusses the opportunities and challenges that financial globalization entail for developing countries. Financial globalization can come with crises and contagion. But financial...
Trade, Growth, and Poverty (2007)
Abstract: A key issue today is the effect of globalization on inequality and poverty. We first identify a
Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam (2007)
assistance and to Ximena Clark and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton for excellent research assistance. The opinions expressed here are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of the World Bank, its...
Not for Citation Without Permission of the Authors (2007)
David Dollar Decrg, David Dollar, Mary Hallward-driemeier
This paper uses new microdata to examine competing explanations of the current crisis in Thailand. The paper presents the survey results of 1200 manufacturing firms interviewed in the last quarter of...
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980 (2005)
One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and poverty. This article documents five trends in the modern era of globalization,...
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980 (2005)
One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and poverty. This article documents five trends in the modern era of globalization,...
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980 (2005)
One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and poverty. This article documents five trends in the modern era of globalization,...
Traducción de: Going Global: Building an Inclusive World Economy
We examine the allocation of foreign aid by 41 donor agencies, bilateral and multilateral. Our policy selectivity index measures the extent to which a donor’s assistance is targeted to countries...
GROWTH, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY (2002)
David Gruen, Jeremy Lawson, David Dollar
The publication of these Conference papers is aimed at making the results of research available to a wider audience. The views expressed are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the...
Growth Is Good for the Poor (2002)
Abstract: Average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately with average incomes. This is a consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the...
Ximena Clark, David Dollar, Ro Micco
Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transport costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to markets, and increases in per capita income. For most Latin American countries,...
Openness, Firms and Competition (2001)
Mary Hallward-driemeier, Paul Collier, David Dollar, Simon Evenett
Abstract: This paper examines the impact of greater foreign competition on domestic firms. Particular attention is paid to dynamic benefits, such as technology spillovers, improved inputs and...
Fifty Years of Development (2000)
Paul Collier, David Dollar, Nicholas Stern
this paper: the importance of complementing macroeconomic, trade, and capital account reform, with institutional development -- in this case, development of the institutions for monitoring,...
Crisis, Adjustment, and Reform in Thailand's Industrial Firms (2000)
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary
New data on Thailand's industrial firms shed light on the origins of the East Asian financial crisis and on the response of the manufacturing sector to the structural adjust-ment program supported by...
La ayuda, el sistema de incentivos y la reducción de la pobreza (1999)
Dollar, David, Burnside, Craig
Uno de los objetivos fundamentales de la ayuda externa es estimular el crecimiento en los países en desarrollo. Otro objetivo, es la reducción de la pobreza. En general, ambos discurren parejos,...
La ayuda, el sistema de incentivos y la reducción de la pobreza (1999)
Dollar, David, Burnside, Craig
Uno de los objetivos fundamentales de la ayuda externa es estimular el crecimiento en los países en desarrollo. Otro objetivo, es la reducción de la pobreza. En general, ambos discurren parejos,...
Competitividad, convergencia y especialización internacional / David Dollar, Edward N. Wolff (1995)
Dollar, David, Wolff, Edward N
Traducción de: Competitiveness, convergence, and international specialization
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Burnside, Craig, Dollar, David
The authors of this paper use a new database on foreign aid to examine the relationships among foreign aid, economic policies, and growth of per capita GDP. In panel growth regressions for 56...
Maritime transport costs and port efficiency
Dollar, David, Micco, Alejandro, Clark, Ximena
Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transport costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to markets, and increases in per capita income. For most Latin American countries...
The search for the key : aid, investment, and policies in Africa
Dollar, David, Easterly, William
The authors'study of aid, investment, and policies in Africa leads them to four principal conclusions: 1) The traditional links between aid, investment, and growth are not robust. Aid does not...
Reform, growth, and poverty in Vietnam
Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out...
Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade
Ximena Clark, David Dollar, Alejandro Micco
Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transport costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to markets, and increases in per capita income. For most Latin American countries,...
Aid allocation and poverty reduction
The authors derive a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compare it with actual aid allocations. They build the poverty-efficient allocation in two stages. First they use new World Bank ratings...
Globalization, poverty, and inequality since 1980
One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization,...
Asian century or multi-polar century ?
The"rise of Asia"is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured at purchasing power parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of...
Kenneth L. Sokoloff, David Dollar
The United States differed dramatically from Britain in the way manufacturing was organized during early industrialization. Even before widespread mechanization, American production was almost...
Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China with firm-level accounting information for 2002-2004, this paper examines the...
Poverty, inequality, and social disparities during China's economic reform
China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64...
This paper uses a new database on foreign aid to examine the relationships among foreign aid, economic policies, and growth per capita GDP. We find that aid has a positive impact on growth in...
Technological Innovations, Capital Mobility, and the Product Cycle inNorth-South Trade.
This paper constructs a general equilibrium model of North-South tradein which the North continually introduces new goods. The rate at whichtechnology diffuses to the South is a function of...
Aid, the incentive regime, and poverty reduction
Burnside, Craig, Dollar, David
Spurring growth in the developing world is one stated objective of foreign aid. Another, more commonly cited, objective is reducing poverty. Generally poverty reduction and growth go hand in hand,...
What explains the success or failure of structural adjustment programs?
Dollar, David, Svensson, Jakob
In the 1980s development assistance shifted largely from financing investments (such as roads and dams) to promoting policy reform. This change came because of a growing awareness that developing...
More effective development aid could greatly improve poverty reduction in the areas where poverty reduction is expected to lag: Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Even more potent...
When average income rises, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This is a consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the...
The evidence from individual cases and from cross-country analysis supports the view that globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. To determine the effect of...
Institutions, trade, and growth : revisiting the evidence
Several recent papers have attempted to identify the partial effects of trade integration and institutional quality on long-run growth using the geographical determinants of trade and the historical...
Aid, policies, and growth : revisiting the evidence
Burnside, Craig, Dollar, David
The authors revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state...
Increasing selectivity of foreign aid, 1984-2002
Dollar, David, Levin, Victoria
The authors examine the allocation of foreign aid by 41 donor agencies, bilateral and multilateral. Their policy selectivity index measures the extent to which a donor's assistance is targeted to...
Investment climate and international integration
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Mengistae, Taye
Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and...
Sowing and reaping: institutional quality and project outcomes in developing countries
Dollar, David, Levin, Victoria
Much of the academic debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid is centered on the relationship between aid and growth. Different aid-growth studies find conflicting results: aid promotes growth...
Neither a borrower nor a lender : does China's zero net foreign asset position make economic sense?
China in the past few years has emerged as a net foreign creditor on the international scene with net foreign assets slightly greater than zero percent of wealth. This is surprising given that China...
A key issue today is the effect of globalisation on inequality and poverty. Well over half the developing world lives in globalising economies that have seen large increases in trade and significant...
What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes?
Dollar, David, Svensson, Jakob
This paper analyses the causes of success or failure of adjustment programmes, using a new database on 220 reform programmes. We find that the success or failure of reform depends on domestic...
Average incomes of the poorest quintile rise proportionately with average incomes in a sample of 92 countries spanning the last four decades. This is because the share of income of the poorest...
China has been the most successful developing country in this modern era of globalization. Since initiating economic reform after 1978, its economy has expanded at a steady rate over 8 percent per...
Development effectiveness: what have we learnt?
We suggest that the 'poverty-efficiency' aid allocation is merely a benchmark guide if a donor lacks other information about the country and also the power to change or prevail over government...
Global Economic Integration and Global Inequality
David Dollar, David Gruen, Terry O'Brien, Jeremy Lawson
globalisation; growth of developing countries; trade policy; global income inequality
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
Alesina, Alberto, Dollar, David
This paper studies the pattern of allocation of foreign aid from various donors to receiving countries. We find considerable evidence that the direction of foreign aid is dictated as much by...
EMPLOYMENT AND INCOME EFFECTS OF MULTINATIONAL PRODUCTION BY U.S. COMPUTER FIRMS
This paper considers the hypothesis that the expansion of multinational corporations has led to decreasing relative demand for production workers in the U.S. and increasing demand for white-collar...
Convergence of Industry Labor Productivity among Advanced Economies, 1963-1982.
Dollar, David, Wolff, Edward N
Data are used for thirteen industrialized countries to investigate convergence of labor productivity levels in individual manufacturing industries over the 1963-82 period. The authors find...
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980
One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and poverty. This article documents five trends in the modern era of globalization,...
Crisis, Adjustment, and Reform in Thailand's Industrial Firms.
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary
New data on Thailand's industrial firms shed light on the origins of the East Asian financial crisis and on the response of the manufacturing sector to the structural adjustment program supported by...
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa.
Dollar, David, Easterly, William
The traditional aid-to-investment-to-growth linkages are not very robust, especially for African economies. Aid does not necessarily finance investment and investment does not necessarily promote...
CONVERGENCE OF INDUSTRY LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AMONG ADVANCED ECONOMIES: 1963-1982
Dollar, David, Wolff, Edward N.
labour productivity ; international trade ; manufacturing
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
This paper studies the pattern of allocation of foreign aid from various donors to receiving countries. We find considerable evidence that the direction of foreign aid is dictated by political and...
Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China with firm-level accounting information for 2002-2004, this paper examines the...
Outward-Oriented Developing Economies Really Do Grow More Rapidly: Evidence from 95 LDCs, 1976-1985.
Investment Climate and Firm Performance in Developing Economies
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Mengistae, Taye
Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan, this article investigates the relationship between the investment climate and firm performance. These...
Some thoughts on the effectiveness of aid, non-aid development finance and technical assistance
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Sokoloff, Kenneth L., Dollar, David
The greater flexibility associated with workers being able to choose the time and circumstance of their work allowed cottage manufacture to compete with technically more productive manufactories by...
Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization
David Dollar and Edward Wolff look at claims that a deindustrialized United States is on the road to secondrate status in the global marketplace and find them to be both unfounded and simplistic....